Becky Sharp (1935) | Directed by Rouben Mamoulian - Full Movie

Set against the background of the Battle of Waterloo, Becky Sharp is the story of Vanity Fair by Thackeray. Becky and Amelia are girls at school together, but Becky is from a "show biz" family, or in other words, very low class. Becky manages to insinuate herself in Amelia's family and gets to know all their friends. From this possibly auspicious- beginning, she manages to ruin her own life, becoming sick, broke, and lonely, and also ruins the lives of many other "loved ones". In the movie we get to see the class distinctions in England at the time, and get a sense of what it was like for the English military at the time of the Napoleonic wars.

Becky Sharp is a 1935 American historical drama film directed by Rouben Mamoulian and starring Miriam Hopkins who was nominated for the Best Actress Oscar. Other supporting cast were William Faversham, Frances Dee, Cedric Hardwicke, Billie Burke, Alison Skipworth, Nigel Bruce, and Alan Mowbray.

The film is based on the 1899 play of the same name by Langdon Mitchell, which in turn was based on William Makepeace Thackeray's 1848 novel Vanity Fair. The play was made famous in the late 1890s by actress Minnie Maddern Fiske. The screenplay was written by Francis Edward Faragoh. The film was considered a landmark in cinema as the first feature film to use the newly developed three-strip Technicolor production throughout, opening the way for a growing number of color films to be made in Britain and the United States in the years leading up to World War II. In 2019, the film was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"

Directed by: Rouben Mamoulian
Screenplay by: Francis Edward Faragoh
Story by: William Makepeace Thackeray, Langdon Mitchell
Produced by: Kenneth Macgowan, Rouben Mamoulian, Robert Edmond Jones
Starring: Miriam Hopkins, Frances Dee, Cedric Hardwicke
Cinematography: Ray Rennahan
Edited by: Archie Marshek
Music by: Roy Webb William Faversham
Production company: Pioneer Pictures
Distributed by: RKO Radio Pictures
Release date: June 13, 1935
Running time: 84 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English